Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 16:16:50 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: Costa Morris <costa@cortx.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ram question Message-ID: <199801220016.QAA13274@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jan 1998 11:53:38 CST." <19980121115338.12041@emsphone.com>
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>In the last episode (Jan 21), Costa Morris said: >> i have 128MB of ram installed in 2.2.5. i reconfigured the kernel >> for the extra ram. >> >> ie. >> options "MAXMEM=(128*1024)" >> >> when i run a top i get this: >> Mem: 72M Active, 6440K Inact, 15M Wired, 20M Cache, 8345K Buf, 11M Free > >72+6+15+20+8+11 == 132, which is sorta close 128MB. You can see >exactly how much memory FreeBSD detected by running "sysctl hw". 'buf' is already included in the 'wired' total, so don't add it in. This would make the total about 124MB. The 4MB discrepency is due to the kernel text+data+bss and a couple of other things not being included in the numbers. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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